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Does our data provide enough evidence to prove that New York police are racially biased (in terms of use of force)? Why or why not?

Does our data provide enough evidence to prove that New York police are racially biased-example-1

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We want to proof for this case if there is enough evidence to conclude that the New York police are racially biased in terms of force

From the info given is possible to see that the proportion with High level of force used is higher for Black people compared to White people. A difference of 6.3-5.8% = 0.5%.

In the other hand, we can see that for the Hands up force level, there is a significant difference between the two proportions, higher for Black compared to White with a difference of 15.1-9.7%= 5.4%

And finally when we analyze the case for No force used, we can see that there is a higher percentage for White (84.4%) compared to Black (78.7%) with a difference of 5.7%.

Based on this results we can conclude that in general the New York police is partially biased since is possible to see that for any level of force used the records are in favor of the White people.

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